Overview
Rita Mansuryan guides clients through complex litigation, transactional and regulatory matters, focusing her practice on the food and agribusiness industry.
Rita helps defend clients in commercial disputes, consumer fraud class actions, and recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks. She also advises food and agribusiness clients on federal, state and local regulatory issues, including Proposition 65 matters in California.
During law school, Rita served as a research assistant to the executive director of the UCLA Law Resnick Program of Food Law and Public Policy and wrote a thesis on the dynamic elements of the dairy industry. She also clerked at two California-based civil litigation law firms and served as a judicial extern for the Hon. David J. Cowan of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Personal Interests
Rita enjoys baking Armenian pastries and hiking in Malibu. In her spare time, she also enjoys playing the piano and guitar.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
California
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Education
UCLA School of Law
J.D. UCLA Women's Law Journal (managing editor) (2018)
University of Oxford
M.St. in English Language and Literature, with merit (2015)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
B.A. in English and Political Science, summa cum laude (2014)
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- California Expands Slack Fill Safe Harbors
The Recorder, co-author, November 2018